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<h1>Lou Holtz, Ohio State defender on ESPN, has been right about the Buckeyes</h1>
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	<br/>on December 29, 2014 at  3:02 PM, updated <span class="updated" title="2014-12-29T22:16:26Z">December 29, 2014 at  4:16 PM</span>
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<p>NEW ORLEANS - Both college football analysts on ESPN, Lou Holtz and Mark May are paid to discuss their unbiased, wide-ranging opinions about the sport on the air.</p>
<p>They disagree a lot, especially when it comes to Ohio State.</p>
<p>Holtz, a Notre Dame coaching legend, typically has been pro-Ohio State this year while May, a former player at Pittsburgh, has been down on the Buckeyes and the Big Ten.</p>
<p>As No. 4 Ohio State prepares to take on No. 1 Alabama in the Sugar Bowl - a semifinal game in the inaugural College Football Playoff - Holtz didn't mind boasting a little about being right about the Buckeyes this year.</p>
<p>"Mark May is a great guy - We have no teleprompter, no script, no rehearsal, but we have a difference opinion," Holtz said. "I love him, but he was a player, I was a coach. He made suggestions, I made decisions. He showered after work, I showered before work. I signed the the paycheck on the front, he signed the back.</p>
<p>"We just have a different way of looking at things."</p>
<p>During a segment called "Final Verdict" on ESPN's College Football Final, Holtz bantered with May about whether or not the Big Ten would have a team in the playoff and whether Ohio State had a shot of cracking the top four.</p>
<p>In those segments, co-host Rece Davis, dressed like a judge, rules either in favor of Holtz or May. Both times, May, who said Ohio State and the Big Ten were out of the College Football Playoff hunt, got the ruling.</p>
<p>Holtz hasn't forgotten.</p>
<p>"I lost two 'Final Verdicts' and doggone it both of them turned out that Rece was wrong," Holtz said. "No. 1 the Big Ten would have somebody in (the playoff) and Ohio State had a chance. Both times he ruled against me."</p>
<p>As for why May tends to have an anti-Big Ten opinion - something many Ohio State fans feel is a trend - Holtz decided to sidestep that question.</p>
<p>"You would have to ask Mark May," Holtz said. "One thing I learned, I don't speak for Mark May. I have a hard time speaking for Lou Holtz."</p>


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